“Tell Us the Condition of Our Craft” — The Case for Pilot Mode: Improving Energy…
Even when the Tesla Model 3 begins to fully drive itself, it will still have humans on board. And it is best not to forget that.
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Installing Solar + Storage Can Help Customers Ride Out Seasonal Grid Outages
It’s super easy for customers in one of the sunniest places in the world, Southern California, to add solar and storage to their home. Adding batteries to a home is a lot like adding a generator to your home as a backup power source, but the real secret in the sauce is pairing batteries with rooftop solar. In this configuration, the rooftop solar will continuously recharge the home battery, allowing the system to provide power to a home for much longer.
Greening The Grid: Resource Adequacy, Intermittency, & Carbon Pricing
To green the grid, we must adopt a strategy of meeting our energy needs with low-cost renewable wind and solar resources. The obvious question is how to resolve the intermittency issue (what happens when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine). Solving this problem is a necessary ingredient for “saving the planet.”
Volkswagen ID.3 Orders Open Up, & Charging Network Grows
Volkswagen opened up mass-market orders for the ID.3 this week in Europe, while also opening up ID.3 1st (limited edition) ordering in the UK — mass-market ID.3 ordering starts in the autumn in the UK.
The Best Case Climate Warming Scenario Is So Not Happening
The latest climate research finds the likelihood of an average global temperature increase staying below of 1.5 degrees Celsius is very low and declining. There is one solution and we all know what it is.
Seniors Are At Risk From Heat During Climate Change
A new report looks at how heat and a climate that is getting hotter is endangering the health of the aging US population. This threat is exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Volkswagen Car.Software Team Gets More Physical Space
We’ve written about Volkswagen’s newfound focus on software — and struggles with that — several times recently. The short summary is: Volkswagen is trying to reinvent itself as a software-centered company. Software is hard.
A Pink Glacier In Italy Is Not Good News
In Italy, the Presena glacier is turning pink due to algae, and this will make the ice melt even faster. Blagio di Mauro from the Institute of Polar Sciences at Italy’s National Research Council told CNN that pink snow has appeared on the glacier.
Jaguar I-PACE Gets More Bling — A Lot More Bling!
Jaguar has announced that the I-PACE is getting significantly upgraded infotainment, charging, driver-assist technology, and design. Let’s have a look.
Jay Leno’s Tesla Model Y Review (Video)
In his latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, he reviewed a Performance version of the Tesla Model Y. Leno noted that Tesla has already mass-produced 12,000 to 14,000 Model Ys. In the video, Leno talks about his friendship with Elon, the Model Y’s interior, his thoughts on Tesla and subsidies, and some of the things he really likes about Tesla as a whole. One other thing that Leno did was demonstrate Autopilot in California traffic.
